Prescribing a course of RSS and Curation

I have around 300 feeds in total in my feed reader and I favourite anything I like the look of and want to revisit or read later. I then go to my favourites only view, in NetNewsWire, naturally. From there I read post by post top down an unfavourite when done, or process further if I want to link or quote it on my site. I guess this counts as curation.

Algo to RSS is just Addiction Swapping. Users who have been preyed upon by predatory platforms may not have the necessary self-control or self-regulating mechanisms to wean themselves off of the algo

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The Prescription is RSS + Curation. Switching to RSS alone will not cure you of your content consumption addiction. You will have to be more active in what content you choose to consume and how often you consume it. You are no longer a passive consumer, but rather an active curator of your content feeds. Here are a few small steps you can take to become your own content curator.

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Get Clean with RSS, Stay Clean through Curation. Honestly, if you are maintaining 10,000 articles from 500 sources in your feed reader daily, you are not getting anything of value. You are not reading for depth. You are not learning. You are not gaining any sort of insights. You are hoarding to distract yourself. You switched to RSS to recreate the low quality experience you received on social media.

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